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Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers

Like others have said above, I think my pictures are influenced as much by things outside of photography than they are by other photographers, but with that disclaimer, here are ten photographers who move me:

Hard to limit it to ten; ask me again tomorrow and probably five of those would be different.

It might be interesting to do a companion thread of ten photographers that, try as you might, you just don't 'get' at all, or photographers whose work you really, really despise. On second thought, that might get a little nasty...

Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers

Two photographers whose work is not well-known, but who made a distinct impression on me, are Aaron Rose and John Deakin. I have a book of Rose's work, but I have had very little success getting information on him. His pinhole photographs of New York are quite remarkable. He deserves to be rediscovered.

Re: Your 10 Most Influential Photographers

Ansel Adams (that's how I learned technique)
Weston (for when I outgrew Adams)
Duane Michaels (for when I outgrew Weston)
James Fee (for underlining that I have no excuses)
Dürer (he would have been a photographer if he was born later)
Stanley Kubrick (a photographer early on but I'm really cheating and talking about his films)